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PM Lee have gone bonkers!!

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http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_269462.html

Political rules to be relaxed

By Sue-Ann Chia

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'The overall thrust of all these changes is to liberalise our society, to widen the space for expression and participation,' said Mr Lee. -- ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE
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BY the next General Election, due in 2011, Singaporeans should be able to post political videos and campaign materials on the Internet without running foul of the law.

Speaking during the National Day Rally on Sunday night, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong hinted at the liberalisation, saying the rules set just before the 2006 polls were 'very restrictive'.

His take: It is time to update the rules or risk them being made obsolete by the rapidly changing new media landscape.

'Cyber years are like dog years. One year in cyberspace equals to seven years in real life,' he said.

However, in a suggestion that the liberalistion would not be total, he pointed to a need to maintain accountability and responsibility.

'It's not easy to do this. Do not think that other countries do not face these problems; they do,' he noted, citing Korea as an example of a country that was very concerned about regulating content on the internt.

Mr Lee also hinted at easing the current ban on party political films, as well as that on outdoor demonstrations.

'The overall thrust of all these changes is to liberalise our society, to widen the space for expression and participation. We encourage more citizens to engage in debate, to participate in building our shared future. And we will progressively open up our system even more,' he said.
 

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I will have to credit those activist, especially the ones that got arrested, for this :biggrin:
 

mini_me

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so who is going to test waters first ?

It will be interesting to see what happens in cyberspace for the next few weeks.
 

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It will be interesting to see what happens in cyberspace for the next few weeks.

We won't see it. They will build an additional layer of proxy servers on top of the exisitng. If one layer is not enough, a couple of layers more would do the trick.:wink:
 

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For a while there i thought the headline states PM Lee have gone bonking. Want to ask for contact.....
 

DerekLeung

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He cannot control forever ! The internet will change even his wife's company Starhub with the internet age ! THis is when Starhub will issue the decree of volume based usage to compensate for the fall in suscribers who needs no Cable Vision !

You can't control how people spend their money if they are not happy !
 

DerekLeung

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He cannot control forever ! The internet will change even his wife's company Starhub with the internet age ! THis is when Starhub will issue the decree of volume based usage to compensate for the fall in suscribers who needs no Cable Vision !

You can't control how people spend their money if they are not happy !


It's the new world order of things ! If you do not like the politician !
Use economic embargo or boycott such governmental entities ! Just like how they use bankruptcies to bully political oppositions !

They can refine the policies to squeeze us ! We can always try to outwit them
 

DerekLeung

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I can't help but think that every new polices that they ever come up with only shows how insecure they are everyday into the future !
 

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They have no choice, with internet anybody can just come out and say whatever they like .... without using their big brains, or even if they use, they dont have the capacity to think for themselves :rolleyes:
 
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